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Sunday, June 10, 2012

from painting to page

Last week I did not work directly in my art journal right away. Though as you might be able to tell from the photo above, my painting exercise ended up in my journal a few days later! I cut it to fit. It was not my plan to paint separately and add the paper to my journal. Instead the painting was done because I felt a need to get back to the exercises I did with Bill Buchman . . . class with him has been over for a month now and I miss it. So, I got out my Cretacolor AquaBriques and my Sennelier soft pastels recommended by Bill and made some marks on the page thinking of shapes and colors, like I was in class. Click on any photo for details!

what this looked like before I got it wet

I spritzed it with water!

and spritzed underneath to flatten it down

Fabriano Watercolor paper

cold press - 140 lbs

I like to play with a lot of water and the Cretacolor watercolor briques

I let this dry, sealed it with a fixative and let the painting sit for a few days.

I was not sure what I would do with it . . .

Then I thought, even though this painting is made on watercolor paper and my journal has watercolor pages, I bet I could still add this to my journal and it would be okay (not too fat).

I made a template for the size of the page and played around until I found where on my painting I wanted the pages to be. I traced the page shapes and cut them out. Below is a slightly out-of focus photo of the completed pages before I placed them in my journal. I have just run them through my xyron adhesive system.

After I placed them in my art journal I added more soft pastels

I chose another affirmation from the list my friend Joanna Urbanni gave me . . .

Thank you so much, I am loving them!

. . . and tried a variety of paint brushes with gesso until I found one that worked, by painting the words on a scrap of the same painted paper, then did it! Sprayed everything again (because of the pastels). I was truly satisfied in so many ways and am happy to add this to the list at Julie Fei-fan Balzer's Art Journal Every day!

Now Steven and I are off on an exciting adventure to celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary! Read all about it here!!
I will happy publish any comments when I return, remember to scroll down for comments if you are reading on the blog ; ^ ) lenna

3 comments:

The colours really sing together and really show you took all Bill's advice on board and gave it your own twist. I've got all the Dylusion sprays they produce and even went once to the place they originate from, Art from the Heart in Harrogate! So I could only smile when I saw you've discovered them too!

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I'm a multi-media creative artist living in Florida with my husband Steve, two sweet old dogs and two young cats. I host creative art swaps a few times a year and love to create, share & inspire. I also enjoy dancing, taking photographs, working in my art journals, creating small collage & mail art. Anything creative! We are fortunate to live on the Braden River and travel by boat a lot.

During the past 20 years I've been published in books, magazines and hosted lots of art exchanges. View both past & current exchange art and learn about any new swaps on my creativeswaps blog - I hosted again in 2016.

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Between 2006-2015, I wrote and shared over 1000 entries on my creativelenna blogspot blog. I do not add posts to this blog anymore, I've created my own blog on the creative lenna website. But the original blog remains online as an archive. The current blog is updated and found on my new website.

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